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	Motorsports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Flock was more than a driver, he was a racing ambassador.
		Born on May 11, 1924, Flock served in the military, was a cab driver, a soda jerk, an iron worker and loaded bootleg whiskey into cars his brothers flat footed just ahead of the law on the back roads of Georgia before becoming involved in racing.
		Flock also won 39 poles, proving he wasn't just a great racer, but that he could be the fastest man of the day.
	www.mshf.com /hof/flock_tim.htm (610 words)

	Tim Flock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tim Flock was one of NASCAR's early pioneers.
		NASCAR's first official season ended with Tim in eighth, Tim's brother Fonty Flock in fifth, and Tim's brother Bob Flock in third in the overall points standing.
		Flock died March 31, 1998 at the age of 73.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Flock (199 words)

	LLOAR From The Press Tim Flock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tim raced on the beach; he raced on dirt tracks; and he raced on super speedways.
		Tim got that wish on February 10, 1997 when he rode in the Living Legends beach parade with his wife, his children, and his long-time friends, Billy Watson and J.B. Day, at his side.
		Tim Flock is truly a legend, and his friends and fans will miss him.
	www.livinglegendsofautoracing.com /pages/press_pages/press_timflock.html (288 words)

	Talladega Walk Of Fame - Davey Allison Memorial
		Tim saw his first race in 1937 and he was hooked.
		As many of the top drivers of his day, Flock raced on the beach course in Daytona Beach, Florida, the foundation layout for what was to become the Grand national circuit.
		In 1952, Flock and Herb Thomas staged a furious battle for the championship.
	www.talladegawalk.com /previous_inductees/flock_tim.htm (586 words)

	AUTO RACING NOTE
		Flock was diagnosed with cancer of the lungs and liver in January.
		Tim, I and Buck Baker had the first 1-2-3 finish for the same team in NASCAR Grand National history at the Phoenix Fairgrounds in the Chrysler 300 in 1956.
		Tim was one of the sport's pioneers and was recently named to the list of its 50 top drivers.
	www.canoe.ca /StatsRAC/BC-RAC-LGNS-FLOCKOBIT-R.html (882 words)

	kellyflock
		The family tree of NASCAR and that of the Flock family are as entwined as the tangled kudzu that blankets the hills of the family's native Alabama.
		Tim Flock who finished second that day recalled the event, "She particularly loved racing with and beating her brothers".
		When Tim lost his battle with cancer at age 83 he knew his contribution to the sport he loved had been recognized and was appreciated.
	www.kellyflock.com (2019 words)

	Tim Flock Profile
		Tim's career was very successful and paid more because he was in his prime when the purses were much bigger.
		Tim was the only driver in NASCAR history to have a monkey as a passenger when he raced.
		Tim Flock, racing at Daytona's beach course, one year jumped out to a fast start and took the lead then all at once he started hitting seagulls.
	www.decadesofracing.net /TimFlock.htm (514 words)

	NASCAR.com - 1952 Season Recap - February 6, 2002
		Tim Flock and defending NASCAR Grand National champion Herb Thomas were caught up in a tremendous battle for the 1952 title as the season was coming to a close.
		Fonty Flock, who was once again caught in the thick of the points race, won the race in dominating fashion after taking the lead on lap 7 and leading the race of the way.
		Fonty Flock again was runner-up to Thomas in the race and scored a fourth place finish in the standings.
	www.nascar.com /2002/kyn/history/dbd/02/06/1952/index.html (938 words)

	NASCAR.com - 1955 Season Recap - February 6, 2002
		Flock had stepped away from the sport after disagreeing with the sanctioning body on some decisions to take race wins away from him after being disqualified.
		Once Tim Flock caught him in the 33rd race, Petty was left to watch Flock run away with the title.
		Points leader Tim Flock finished fifth in the event and was poised to clinch his second NASCAR Grand National title.
	www.nascar.com /2002/kyn/history/dbd/02/06/1955/index.html (667 words)

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		Tim jumped into the fray a bit later, in 1947 to be exact and later that year he claimed his first win at Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta.
		Tim Flock opened a Pure Oil station in Atlanta and seemed content to live out his life as an entrepreneur, were it not for a fortuitous twist of fate.
		Tim Flock, who had butted heads with Big Bill France many times in the past, joined Turner in his effort and, when the whole organizing plan fell apart, both Turner and Flock received lifetime bans from NASCAR racing.
	www.yourfunshop.com /home/archive3/index9.html (1573 words)

	Fonty Flock Profile
		Flock took the lead over Hall early in the race but Hall kept nipping at Fonty all the way.
		Flock's Ford climbed the outer edge of the track and flipped end-over-end and side-over-side into a clump of bushes.
		Flock was rushed, by ambulance, to the Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
	www.decadesofracing.net /FontyFlock.htm (674 words)

	ESPN Classic - Flock was NASCAR pioneer
		Though they tried unsuccessfully to keep Tim away from car racing and in school, he watched the races, which were held in cow pastures and drew crowds of 200 to 300.
		Flock married Frances Marie Roberts in 1944, three years after meeting her when she was 13.
		The competing Flock brothers, who became known as the "Flying Flocks," were curious about a new type of race started by Bill France, who formed NASCAR in December 1947 and ran a modified series in 1948.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Flock_Tim.html (1325 words)

	Tim Flock - NASCAR Inactive - GoNascarGo.com
		Tim Flock returned to racing in 1951 and won seven races and six pole positions placing him in third place, just 339 points behind Fonty.
		Tim Flock won the pole in the first race of the 1956 season and went on to take the checkered flag.
		Tim Flock passed away in March of 1998 but not before being named to the NMPA Hall of Fame as well as the State of Georgia Hall of Fame, the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and the Charlotte Motorspeedway Court of Legends.
	www.gonascargo.com /drivers/tim-flock.php (453 words)

	Fonty Flock - NASCAR Inactive - GoNascarGo.com
		Flock used to taunt the local sheriff into chasing him just to prove his car was faster.
		Flock would get the best parts for his car knowing the sheriff did not have the resources to make his car as fast as Fonty’s.
		Flock led Hall early in the race but Hall wouldn’t let up and eventually they made contact in the south turn, sending Flock tumbling end over end.
	www.gonascargo.com /drivers/fonty-flock.php (413 words)

	SpeedwayMedia.com, Online Resource For Motorsports Information
		Tim Flock was born May 11, 1924 in Fort Payne, Alabama where he and his seven brothers and sisters were raised.
		Tim was unable to compete during the 1950 season due to injuries sustained in a 4-car crash at Charlotte.
		Flock as concerned with the automatic transmission in the Chrysler 300 saying he felt it would not keep pace with other cars on the uphill portion of the beach course.
	www.speedwaymedia.com /Articles/04/110204Madding.asp (1019 words)

	The Callahan Racing Page: News
		Waltrip turned his #17 car into "The Tim Flock Special" that carried Flock's famous #300 on Friday and Saturday practice and qualifying sessions at Darlington on March 20 & 21.
		I don't know how significant it was that Tim got to see that car, but I can tell you this, it was important to me. I hope it encouraged him and put a smile on his face at a time when there wasn't a lot to smile about.
		Stevie and I send our heartfelt condolences to Tim's family and we know that all of the NASCAR family is thinking of them today.
	www.theautochannel.com /callahan/news/98040102.html (169 words)

	NASCAR Racing Commentary
		Flock later said that it was the first time in NASCAR History that a car had to pit to put a monkey out of it.
		When Tim first started racing, he once found himself at a track with a car that was obviously not up to par with the assembled competition.
		Tim's brother, Bob, was also a moonshine-runner, and was well known, and even respected by Federal Agents who chased him night after night in the hills and mountains of North Georgia.
	members.aol.com /jalan5000a/com0042.html (1836 words)

	Performance Racing Network - Listen to the Latest Radio Show Broadcasts over the Web
		No one seemed to have anything for early NASCAR legend Tim Flock driving a big honking 1950 Lincoln, but a bad pit stop dropped Flock out of top spot, and the hometown hero took the lead and was never headed.
		During the race Fonty's brother, Tim Flock seemed to have Petty's measure, and he did indeed beat Lee to the line by almost a minute and a half.
		Ironically the driver he ended up with was Tim Flock, the driver who had quit NASCAR after being disqualified from the previous year's Daytona Race.
	www.goprn.com /nascar/400805.html (2679 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		His star driver was 1952 NASCAR champion Tim Flock, who came into the Richmond event with five victories for the season.
		Fonty Flock, teammate to his brother, made a late race charge, but it was Tim Flock who took the win as the Flock brothers finished first and second.
		Tim Flock went on to win 18 races for the season along with the 1955 NASCAR championship.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=199999&FS=NASCAR-CUP (525 words)

	Tim Flock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tim Flock was one of (additional info and facts about NASCAR) NASCAR's early pioneers.
		He finished 5th in NASCAR’s inaugural (additional info and facts about Winston Cup) Winston Cup race at (additional info and facts about Charlotte, North Carolina) Charlotte, North Carolina in 1949.
		The 18 victories stood as a record until broken by “The King”, (additional info and facts about Richard Petty) Richard Petty, in 1967.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ti/tim_flock.htm (219 words)

	Inside Line: The Chevy Small-Block Turns 50 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The 26th was a frigid and windy Saturday night at Columbia Speedway, four miles down the Charleston Highway from the city's center, but almost 3,000 fans braved the elements and paid $3 to stand in the infield or $4 to sit in the grandstands.
		Tim Flock's Carl Kiekhafer-owned Chrysler 300 proved as intimidating as promised and qualified for the pole.
		As the wreckage was being cleared, and amid the general confusion of wiping out the scoring system, Tim Flock entered the pits for tires putting Fonty Flock's Chevrolet in the lead.
	www.edmunds.com /insideline/do/Features/articleId=105242 (1221 words)

	Beach-Road Memories
		Fonty Flock #14 and Jimmie Lewallen #59 take the high groove to pass Bob Dawson as a herd of hungry rivals nip at their heels.
		Front row starters Tim Flock and Lee Petty, in a pair of Chrysler 300s, lead the 48-car field on the pace lap prior to the start of the 1955 Daytona Beach Grand National.
		Flock was declared the winner after apparent winner Roberts was disqualified.
	speedzone70.tripod.com /beach-road.html (587 words)

	lloar_from_press nascar lakewood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tim Flock won the race which paid a total purse of $4,000.
		As the case with many races, Tim Flock's victory was overshadowed by tragedy.
		In the star-studded field were Billy Carden, the Flocks, Jack Smith, Buck Baker, Gober Sosebee, Buddy Shuman, Curtis Turner, Jack Etheridge, Charlie Bagwell, and Sonny Black.
	livinglegendsofautoracing.com /pages/press_pages/press_nas_lake.html (474 words)

	iPlot
		Flock hopes to be the integrated new web browser for bloggers and everyone else who uses the web to not just passively, that is for viewing and downloading content, but for connecting and publishing.
		Flock is built on top of Firefox but besides Firefox features like tabbed browsing it provides additional functionality that build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysiwyg blog writing tool.
		Flock offers functionality for editing posts (even posts not created with Flock), quick toggle between preview and viewing the actual code, and, the ability to simply drag flickr photos directly into the post and manipulate them.
	iplot.typepad.com (2774 words)

	NASCAR.com - Tim Flock - February 6, 2002
		One of the true pioneers of the sport, Flock was the NASCAR Winston Cup Seres champion in 1952 and 1955.
		Flock finished fifth in the inaugural NASCAR Winston Cup race, June 19, 1949, at the old Charlotte Speedway three-quarter-mile dirt track.
		Flock's 18 victories (in 45 races) in 1955 stood as a NASCAR record until 1967 and the 19 pole positions he earned that same year still stands as a record.
	www.nascar.com /2002/kyn/history/drivers/02/02/tflock (232 words)

	NASCAR History 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tim Flock, fresh off a win at Daytona with the new Mercury Outboard Chrysler 300 took a week off at the Savannah, GA race and showed up in Columbia to prove he was a force to be reckoned with.
		The Flock fans got their money's worth when Tim put his #300 on the pole and they had reason to cheer.
		Tim had sat out a year from NASCAR after protesting a technical disqualification from the 1954 Daytona and in a reverse of fortune had captured the 1955 Daytona after Fireball Roberts got disqualified from his win.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/1071/55chev.html (562 words)

	Commentary News: The 'Bubba Cup' (Amended)
		The next year, Tim Flock turned the tables on Thomas and Lee Petty, winning on points but not on victories.
		The 1955 season was a runaway for Tim Flock with 18 wins, triple Lee Petty's six.
		Tim Richmond, capable of better car control than an entire field of other drivers, (he was the one sent out by NASCAR to test a track after a rainstorm) earned the 1986 Latford Cup with seven wins over Dale Earnhardt's five.
	www.fastmachines.com /archives/commentary/002226.php (2936 words)

	Tim Flock - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As many of the top drivers of his day, Flock raced on the beach course in Daytona Beach, Fla., the foundation layout for what was to become the Grand National circuit.
		When the final race of the season at West Palm Beach, Fla., rolled around in November, all Flock had to do was start and the title was his.
		Tim Flock attended every Hall of Fame induction ceremony up until his death in 1998.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1991/Tim_Flock_main.htm (612 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Tim Flock
		The younger brother of Fonty Flock, Tim had a much briefer career.
		Fonty and Tim were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 1953 standings.
		In 1955, Tim had one of the greatest years in racing history with 17 victories, a NASCAR record, and he won his second Grand National championship.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/flocktim.shtml (190 words)

	NASCAR Families - Part 2
		Ethel Flock Mobley raced in two events with her three brothers.
		Tim Flock reminisces, "There were nine of us kids, and about all of us were daredevils.
		Carl Lee Flock was great at doing tricks on bicycles and he walked tightropes.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/NASCA/27275 (471 words)

	Flock's induction official with Hall of Fame ceremony
		A dinner was held at the Peninsula Club in Cornelius to honor Tim with Flock family and friends attending.
		One of the true pioneers of the sport, Tim Flock was actually inducted to the Hall of Fame in a private informal ceremony at his home in Charlotte last February.
		Flock traveled to Daytona Beach last February to be named one of the 50 greatest drivers in NASCAR history as part of the 50th Anniversary season celebration.
	www.ncarhof.com /news/1999.inductee.htm (392 words)

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